On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:35:17PM +0100, Ian Hobson wrote:

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:57:15PM +0100, Ian Hobson wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi All
> >>
> >>I am trying to set up a wordpress site using nginx, and I am running
> >>into trouble. Started with the page at
> >>http://robertbasic.com/blog/wordpress-as-cms-tutorial/ but things are
> >>not working. I think that my translation
> >>oh an .htaccess file is wrong.
> >>
> >>This is the Apache .htaccess file I wish to replace..
> >>
> >><IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> >>RewriteEngine On
> >>RewriteBase /blog/
> >>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> >>RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> >>RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
> >></IfModule>
> >>
> >>This is the file in sites-available. / gives an empty reply, /blog gives
> >>a 404, and index.php?p=1 gives a url of
> >>http://www.domain.com/blog/http:/www.domain.com/blog/hello-world/ and
> >>the page contains "No input file specified".
> >>
> >># Statements for domain.com
> >>server {
> >> listen 80;
> >> #
> >> server_name domain.com www.domain.com ;
> >> root /var/www/domain.com/htdocs;
> >> access_log /var/www/domain.com/access.log combined;
> >> index index.php index.html index.htm;
> >> #
> >> # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
> >> #
> >> error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
> >> # serve static files
> >> if (-f $request_filename) {
> >> # expires 30d;
> >> break;
> >> }
> >> # send all non-existing file or directory requests to index.php
> >> if (!-e $request_filename) {
> >> rewrite ^/blog/(.+)$ index.php?q=$1 last;
> >> }
> >> # password protect /usage
> >> location ^~ /usage/ {
> >> auth_basic "Please login";
> >> auth_basic_user_file /var/www/domain.com/passwords;
> >> }
> >> # all .php requests to fastcgi using uri.
> >> location ~ \.php$ {
> >> include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
> >> fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> >> }
> >>}
> >>
> >>I suspect that the solution is really simple, but I can't see it.
> >>Help much appreciated.
> >>
> >
> > location /blog/ {
> > try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
> > }
> >
> > location ~ \.php$ {
> > include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
> > fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> > }
> >
> >
> Thanks Igor for your super fast response.
>
> I should have mentioned that I'm on ubuntu and therefore nginx 0.5.33
> ! No try-files.
>
> So I must either compile nginx on (unfamilar) ubuntu, or work round the
> missing try-files.

location /blog/ {
error_page 404 = /index.php;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}


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Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/